right now it is down by 34 points. go live to the new york stock exchange in just a few minutes. 30 years, 30 million funerals. now there is new hope. it is world aids day. everyone from u.s. presidents to rock super stars, they are talking about the ongoing fight to end this epidemic. make no mistake, we are going to win this fight. the fight s not over, not by a long shot. the rate of new infections may be going down elsewhere, but it s not going down here in america. the infection rate here has been holding steady for over a decade. so what is next for the battle against aids? we ll take a look at the latest medical advancements. i m going to talk to bono about the possibility of a generation without aids within three years. that interview s coming up in the next hour of newsroom. the lawyer for jerry sandusky, the former penn state defensive coach says the time may come when his client has to think about a plea deal. that s right, the lawyer says that a plea could
a sign of better times ahead or just, i don t know, one feel good day for investors? it is a very big feel-good day. 490 points. we were talking about this yesterday morning. we haven t seen a big move like that in 2 1/2 years but we have concerns here and as i pointed out to you yesterday, that was a defensive move by the world central banks to make sure that the oxygen is still flowing to the european financial system and to the capital markets. so, because of big danger signals overall in the markets, that s why you had folks coming in. don t forget, a lot of things here holding the u.s. back. we had the europe situation, the european mess, that s something that still has to be resolved. we also in this country have our own debt problems and gridlock in washington on how to fix them. the supercommittee just had a superfailure and we haven t solved many of the problems that led the united states to lose its own aaa rating. we still have a jobless rate and a weak housing m
that was why literally i m eating a mcdonald s hamburger and thinking why aren t i in a restaurant eating a steak? what i love is it can be totally inconsequential, pointless. but you are having this weird real-time debate with the world. do you have people tweeting back? i believe in abuse. i love the abuse. i retreat most of the best abuse. i find it funny, yeah. it s one of the things you have to take in our job. having been a newspaper editor where you re public enemy number one most of the time, i am used to it. i like it, i embrace it. i wake up and say a lot of phony platitudes, i m really disappointed. i like to come on and go, morgan, you re such a half wit. what s your talent? nothing, i don t have one. i see how much anger you have. i don t have one. it gets to them. up next, piers and i switch roles. he interviews me, and some of his questions caught me offguard. what s been the greatest